China Media Group (CMG) will air the 2024 Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival Gala on Sunday night, showcasing the festive atmosphere of celebrating harvests across the country to the audience.
The gala will feature a main stage in Xiantao City, central Hubei Province, and a special stage in Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County in southwestern Chongqing Municipality.
This year's gala is divided into three sections showcasing festive scenes, rural revitalization, and farmers' happiness. Cinematographic techniques are employed to capture dance performances, offering the audience an authentic feel of being amidst farmlands.
The gala will be broadcast on CMG's comprehensive channel CCTV-1 and agriculture channel CCTV-17, as well as its social media platforms.
CMG to air 2024 Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival Gala
China's Shenzhou-23 crewed spaceship blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the country's northwest on Sunday, sending three astronauts to its orbiting space station.
The spaceship, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, lifted off from the launch site at 23:08 Beijing Time (15:08 GMT).
The crew members consist of mission commander Zhu Yangzhu, and fellow astronauts Zhang Zhiyuan and Lai Ka-ying, who is also the first astronaut from China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
In another notable first, one of the crew members is set to undertake a year-long stay aboard the space station, double the usual duration of previous Shenzhou missions.
After entering orbit, the Shenzhou-23 spaceship will perform a fast automated rendezvous and docking with the radial port of the space station core module Tianhe, forming a combination of three modules and three spacecraft.
Shenzhou-23 marks the 40th flight of China's manned spaceflight program and the seventh manned flight mission since the Tiangong space station entered its application and development phase in late 2022.
China launches Shenzhou-23 manned spaceship
